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Torino
Torino Football Club, or simply Torino. Are an Italian professional football club based in the Capitol city of the Piedmont region. In the city of Turin.
The club was founded in 1906, they have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football, though they are currently plying their trade in the second tier. The Italian Serie B.
Torino, play in claret shirts with white shorts, they have claimed the Serie A title seven times, first in 1927-28 and most recently in 1975-76. They have also won the Coppa Italia on five occasions. On the European stage, the nearest Torino came to success was as runners-up in the UEFA Cup in 1991-92. Historically, Torino are the joint fifth most successful club in Italian
Football in terms of championships won.
Until 1970 the club was known as Associazione Calcio Torino, and then as Torino Calcio from 1970 to 2005.
Il Grande Torino
The most notable period in the clubs history;
Grande Torino ("The Great Torino") was the name by which the Torino F.C. team of the 1940s is popularly known in Italy. Grande Torino set many important records of Italian Football, all of which still stand today.
Grande Torino played with an attacking 4-2-4 formation, 10 years before the Brazil 1958 World Cup team, and some of their game tactics inspired the Dutch Total Football that revolutionized the game in the 1970s.
The Italy National Football Team starting lineup in the second half of the forties consisted almost entirely of Grande Torino players, which regularly contributed 8-9 starters. On May 11, 1947, for the friendly match between Italy and Hungary 3-2, the Azzurri starting lineup was made of 10 Grande Torino. Italian manager Vittorio Pozzo reserved the Azzurri starting keeper Valerio Bacigalupo; otherwise it would have been the whole Grande Torino team playing for Italy.
The Superga Tragedy
On May 4, 1949, after having secured their record fifth back-to-back Serie A title, and on their way home after a friendly match with Benfica, the airplane carrying Grande Torino crashed against the Basilica of Superga, on a hill near Turin, killing nearly all the players and managers.
Grande Torino is still much loved by Italian football fans as a symbol of national pride that helped Italian people get through the hardships of post World War II.
Torino Football Club, or simply Torino. Are an Italian professional football club based in the Capitol city of the Piedmont region. In the city of Turin.
The club was founded in 1906, they have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football, though they are currently plying their trade in the second tier. The Italian Serie B.
Torino, play in claret shirts with white shorts, they have claimed the Serie A title seven times, first in 1927-28 and most recently in 1975-76. They have also won the Coppa Italia on five occasions. On the European stage, the nearest Torino came to success was as runners-up in the UEFA Cup in 1991-92. Historically, Torino are the joint fifth most successful club in Italian
Football in terms of championships won.
Until 1970 the club was known as Associazione Calcio Torino, and then as Torino Calcio from 1970 to 2005.
Il Grande Torino
The most notable period in the clubs history;
Grande Torino ("The Great Torino") was the name by which the Torino F.C. team of the 1940s is popularly known in Italy. Grande Torino set many important records of Italian Football, all of which still stand today.
Grande Torino played with an attacking 4-2-4 formation, 10 years before the Brazil 1958 World Cup team, and some of their game tactics inspired the Dutch Total Football that revolutionized the game in the 1970s.
The Italy National Football Team starting lineup in the second half of the forties consisted almost entirely of Grande Torino players, which regularly contributed 8-9 starters. On May 11, 1947, for the friendly match between Italy and Hungary 3-2, the Azzurri starting lineup was made of 10 Grande Torino. Italian manager Vittorio Pozzo reserved the Azzurri starting keeper Valerio Bacigalupo; otherwise it would have been the whole Grande Torino team playing for Italy.
The Superga Tragedy
On May 4, 1949, after having secured their record fifth back-to-back Serie A title, and on their way home after a friendly match with Benfica, the airplane carrying Grande Torino crashed against the Basilica of Superga, on a hill near Turin, killing nearly all the players and managers.
Grande Torino is still much loved by Italian football fans as a symbol of national pride that helped Italian people get through the hardships of post World War II.